Warren Hamilton

TL;DR: The plate-tectonic evolution of a region can be deduced by following the as-sumptions that subduction zones are characterized by ophiolite, melange, wildflysch, and blueschist, that intermediate and silicic calc-alkaline igneous rocks form above Benioff zones, and that truncations of orogenic belts indicate rifting as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The plate-tectonic evolution of a region can be deduced by following the as-sumptions that subduction zones are characterized by ophiolite, melange, wildflysch, and blueschist, that intermediate and silicic calc-alkaline igneous rocks form above Benioff zones, and that truncations of orogenic belts indicate rifting as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The Mesozoic evolution of California is interpreted as dominated by the underflow of oceanic mantle beneath the continental margin this paper, which can be represented in the eugeosynclinal terranes of California.

TL;DR: The Cenozoic structures of the western United States are interpreted here as being products mostly of horizontal motion of the crust, and the distribution of strike-slip faulting, tensional fragmentation of the brittle upper crust or rupturing of the entire continental crust and compression define a pattern of northwestward motion increasing irregularly southwestward toward coastal California.

TL;DR: Agarwal et al. as discussed by the authors found that the early Earth was probably wholly molten and the surface of the Earth was largely recycled by impacts before 3.9 Ga and heavily modified by them until 3.8 Ga. They indicate heat loss by the Archean Earth primarily by voluminous magmatism from a mantle much hotter than the present.